This document provides information and instructions for Assessment 2, a literature review, for the subject BUS606 Literature Review for Master of Business. The literature review is worth 35% of the total marks for the subject and is due in Week 9. Students must submit a 2500 word literature review shaped by their research argument and theoretical orientation. It must conclude by identifying a need for research in the chosen area. The literature review will be assessed based on criteria including knowledge and understanding of the topic, content and exploration of theories, critical engagement, and referencing and technical skills.

1. Assessment Information
Subject Code: BUS606
Subject Name: Literature Review for Master of Business
Research Project
Assessment Title: Assessment 2 – Literature review
Weighting: 35 %
Total Marks:
Length:
35
2500 (not including reference list)
Due Date: Submission due Week 9 – Sunday at 11.59 pm
COURSE: Master of Business (Research)
Unit: Business Research Proposal and Literature Review
Unit Code: BUS606
Type of
Assessment:
Assessment 2 – Literature review

2. Unit Learning
Outcomes
addressed:
(a) Demonstrate an advanced ability to initiate and prepare
an original research proposal.
(b) Demonstrate an advanced ability to prepare a literature
review based on the support of an original research
proposal.
(c) Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the ethical issues
associated with an original research proposal and their
implications for the research and the acceptability of the
research by an ethics review committee.
(d) Critically evaluate the coherence, relevance and
methodological merits of a given body of literature.
(e) Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theoretical,
practical and professional contexts and significance of the
research.
(f) Prepare a literature review that identifies and
discriminates between concepts, issues, key findings and
relevant theories most pertinent to the research proposal
which the review supports.
Criteria for
Assessment:
ent and exploration of theories and ideas

3. Assessment Task:
Students are required to submit a literature review for their
chosen project
Your literature review should be shaped by your argument and
should seek to establish your theoretical orientation, along with
your methodological choices. Your literature review needs to
conclude with what you have demonstrated as a ‘need for
research’ in the area. This is the primary statement for the
justification of the research project.
The literature review needs to be organized with sub-headers in
a
meaningful manner based on your research topic. The language
used in a literature review is often evaluative and demonstrates
your perspectives of the literature in relation to your research
question. Your 'voice' or your perspective, position or
standpoint,
should be identifiable in the literature review.
It is important that, firstly, your theoretical position is clearly
and
strongly stated and that your critical evaluations are an integral
part of this document. Secondly, it important that your language
indicates your own or other writers’ attitudes to the research
question. The literature review always ends with a research
question that will be the focus of the Master of Business
Research thesis.
You should follow the outline below:

4. Title of literature review: In not more than 12 words state the
title of your proposed research project and literature review
Research Cluster: Identify the Research Cluster aligned to your
research project
Corporations
-for Profit
Organisations
ship and Management of Start-ups, SMEs
and Family Business
and Digital Transformation Cluster 5: Leadership and
Management of Sustainable Business Operations
ent of Government
and Multilateral Organisations
Hospitality Organisations
Introduction
Provide an overview of the literature review. Indicate the
objectives of the literature review.
Literature review

5. Use relevant headings and sub-headings to organize your
literature review.
Conclusion
Your conclusion should provide a summary of the literature and
show the gaps in the literature to be addressed by the research
project, the proposed methods to be used and the expected
contribution to the field of research from undertaking the
research
project.
Submission Date: Week 9 (online submission).
Total Mark &
Weighting:
35 marks | 35%
Students are advised that any submissio ns past the due date
without an approved
extension or approved extenuating circumstances incur a 5%
penalty per
calendar day,
calculated from the total mark e.g. a task marked out of 15 will
incur a 1.75 mark penalty
per calendar day.
Marking rubrics
Criteria

6. HD (High Distinction)
85%-100%
DN (Distinction)
75%-84%
CR (Credit)
74%-65%
P (Pass)
50%-64%
F (Fail)
0%-49%
Knowledge and
u n d e rs t a n d i n g
5 m a rk s
Comma nd of th e
topic, u nus ual
creat ivity,
perception and
insight, all
suggesting that
work should be

7. pub lish ed i n a n
academic forum.
Dem onstr ates
comman d of the
topic by showing
creativity,
perception and
insight — a
serious
c o n t r i b u t i o n t o
t h e academic
debate.
Dem onstr ates a
wel l- informed
understanding of
the to pic by
showin g
creativity and

8. insight — a
serious
contribution to
the academic
debate.
Understanding
of contemporary
academic
debate, with
some
creative input and
insight, with a
tendency toward
description.
Limited/poor
understanding
demonstrated. Any
creative input is

9. somewhat off the
point.
Content and
exploration of theories
and ideas
10 marks
Outstanding
selection that
makes a
substantial
contribution to
academic
debate.
O u tst a n d i n g
s e l ect i o n from a
wide relevant and
innovative range
of perspectives

10. and sources.
Selection from a
wide and
rel eva nt r an ge
of perspectives
and sources
that draws
upon
contemporary
academic
debate.
Relevant selection
from a ra ng e of
pe rspectiv es
and sources.
Sources are
mostly
inte gr ate d int o

11. the overall
argument.
Narrow selection,
minimal use of
sources, to support the
argument.
Analysis,
synthesis and
critical engagement
15 marks
Outstanding use
of source
material.
Excellent
argument that is
of the hig hest
acad em ic quality.
S ourc es very
wel l integrated

12. into the overall
argument. Clear
well
structured
argument that is
well crafted and
Sources well-
integrated into
the overall
argument.
Clear, cogent
and well-
structured
Mostly clear,
cogent and well-
structured
argument.
Dem onstr ates

13. criticality a n d
Sources are not
properly integrated
into the a rgument.
A bs enc e of clear
and c og ent
argument.
Incomplete analysis
Critical distance
and outstanding
analysis of the
question, to a
high degree of
excellence.
cogent. Critical
distanc e and

14. outstanding
analysis of the
question.
argument.
Critical
distance and sound
analysis of the
question.
g e n e r a l ly g o o d
analysis.
with a tendency to
accept the source
material at face
value.
Technical skills
and referencing
5marks
Referencing
impeccable

15. using
appropriate
conventions.
No errors in
grammar or
spelling.
Referencing clear
and accurate using
appropriate
conventions.
Virtually no errors i n
grammar or
spelling.
Referencing
clear and
accurate
using
appropriate

16. conventions. Good
grammar and
spelling.
Referencing
sufficiently clear
and using an
appropriate
convention.
Adequate
grammar and
spelling.
References
limited/inappropriate.
Many errors in
grammar and
spelling, making it
difficult or impossible
to read.